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KOffice GUI Competition Winner

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the community-makes-it-better dept.

Boudewijn Rempt writes "The KOffice GUI Competition has been won by Martin Pfeiffer. His entry was chosen from eighteen submissions by the jury because of its innovative, ground-breaking approach to workflow and document handling. Many submitters broke away from the beaten path and explored wild and wonderful ideas. The results page also has all submitted entries available for review."

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  1. The actual proposal by Kadin2048 · · Score: 5, Informative

    If anyone else was looking for the guy's actual proposal that was submitted to the competition, this is it:

    http://www.koffice.org/competition/gui1results/mar tin_pfeiffer.pdf

    Frankly I think a lot of what he suggests strike me as rather "duh" concepts -- things which ought to be rather obvious but are ignored in some of the major office suites. I'm not sure how I feel about an application having a "desktop" which is separate from the actual OS' desktop; it seems like it would lead to a situation where every application has its own desktop, possibly with conflicting UI metaphors, and that's not a good end result for the user.

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  2. Re:Check it out by SirTalon42 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The cygwin port of KDE is dead. KDE 4 is using the native windows version of Qt 4 (Qt4 is GPL on all platforms).